TCO comparison between Oracle Standard Edition and Autonomous Database
Customers who move from on-premises Oracle Database Standard Edition can expect to achieve a significant reduction in total cost of ownership.
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Reduce your TCO by upgrading Standard Edition to Oracle Autonomous Database
Customers who move from on-premises Oracle Database Standard Edition can expect to achieve a significant reduction in total cost of ownership. The example analysis below breaks down the software, compute, storage, networking, and labor costs of a typical Oracle Database Standard Edition on-premises deployment on a two-socket server, and then compares that to upgrading to Oracle Autonomous Database.
Note that Oracle Support Rewards savings are reflected as a negative software cost.
Total cost of ownership analysis
On-premises Oracle Database Standard Edition |
Oracle Autonomous Database |
|
|---|---|---|
Software cost totals |
$46,398 |
$4,350 |
| Oracle Database Standard Edition license cost* | 0 | 0 |
| Oracle Database Standard Edition support cost | $11,550 | $11,550 |
| Support Rewards | N/A | ($7,200) |
| Virtualization support cost | $9,120 | 0 |
| Virtualization license cost | $13,824 | 0 |
| Operating system cost | $11,904 | 0 |
* On-premises costs are zero due to the assumption that these costs are already incurred.
On-premises Oracle Database Standard Edition |
Oracle Autonomous Database |
|
|---|---|---|
Compute cost totals |
$8,448 |
$20,304 |
| Server hardware* | 0 | N/A |
| Database compute subscription | N/A | $20,304 |
| Server service | $5,760 | N/A |
| Server facilities | $2,688 | N/A |
* On-premises costs are zero due to the assumption that these costs are already incurred.
On-premises Oracle Database Standard Edition |
Oracle Autonomous Database |
Labor cost totals |
$11,853 |
$3,552 |
|---|---|---|
| Downtime cost | $2,639 | $1,319 |
| Database administrator cost | $1,950 | $780 |
| System administrator cost | $7,264 | $1,453 |
On-premises Oracle Database Standard Edition |
Oracle Autonomous Database |
Storage cost totals |
$2,376 |
$8,496 |
|---|---|---|
| Storage hardware* | 0 | N/A |
| Storage subscription | N/A | $8,496 |
| Storage service | $2,088 | N/A |
| Storage facilities | $288 | N/A |
* On-premises costs are zero due to the assumption that these costs are already incurred.
On-premises Oracle Database Standard Edition |
Oracle Autonomous Database |
|
|---|---|---|
Network cost totals |
$1,161 |
0 |
| Network hardware | $821 | N/A |
| Network subscription | N/A | 0 |
| Network service | $296 | N/A |
| Network facilities | $44 | N/A |
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